HealthPulse

When your health runs low, the edges of the screen glow red and beat like a heart - stronger and faster the lower it gets, like in many games.

Drawn under the HUD: health bar, hotbar and minimap stay clear. Works with HudLayout.

• Starts below 35 % health: a faint red tint at first, a dense red frame near zero.
• Swells softly like a heartbeat - "lub-dub", from 45 to 80 beats a minute as you weaken.
• Flashes when you take a hit at low health.
• Heartbeat sound below 15 % - experimental, off by default.
• Fades in and out smoothly; hidden while dead, sleeping, teleporting or loading.
• Drawn under the whole HUD, so bars, hotbar and windows stay clear; HudLayout doesn't pick it up. Stays when you hide the HUD (Ctrl+F3) - it's a warning - unless you turn on HideWithHud.

Everything is adjustable in BepInEx/config/j1ga.healthpulse.cfg or in-game with ConfigurationManager (F1): threshold, strength, colour (e.g. for colour blindness), width, heart rate, hit flash, sound and its volume.

Client-side only. Install it if you want the effect; other players, the host and the server need nothing. No Harmony patches, nothing sent over the network.

Compatibility

Tested with Valheim 1.0.16, BepInEx 5.4.23.5 (BepInExPack_Valheim 5.4.2351).

Bugs and feedback

GitHub issues - please include BepInEx/LogOutput.log.

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